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David Nicholson Nicholson was born in Nottingham in 1956 and educated at Forest Fields Grammar School. He graduated from Bristol Polytechnic with a history and politics degree and began work in the health sphere. At […]

John Nield Councillor John Nield was a Communist member of the Liverpool County Borough Council who belonged to the Communist faction of the Labour Party and later simply the Communist Party. Nield was but one of […]

Fergus Nicholson Fergus George H M Nicolson was born in 1935 in Dumfries. He was a Glorney Cup chess competition champion as a Hyndland Senior Secondary School, Glasgow, school pupil at the age of only […]

Lawrie Nickolay (Phil Nickolay, Lawrie’s brother is also covered here; see separate entry for Alys Nickolai, Lawrie’s wife.) Lawrie Nickolay was born in Islington on August 10th 1915; his brother Phil, also to become a […]

Gordon Norris Growing up in Hartlepool, Norris was as familiar as the rest of his class and generation with poverty. Having left school during the Second World War, he found work in steelworks locally. After […]

Barbara Niven Barbara Niven was born on 5 November 1896 in Chorleton, Lancashire. Along with her husband, Ern Brooks (see separate entry), Niven was Art Director of Theatre Union, established in 1936 in Manchester. It […]

Elizabeth Nicholson Elizabeth Nicholson was the treasurer of Scarborough Communist Party when she died on the 19th October 1945, at 13 Durham Street, Scarborough. She was clearly a veteran of revolutionary politics, since the […]

Horace Newbold Horace Edward Newbold was born on 8 April 1900, in Barrow-in-Furness, into a family with strong working class affiliations. His father was Branch Secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour from 1899 […]

Melita Norwood Melita Norwood, known throughout her life as `Letty’, was born on March 25th 1912 as Melita Sirnis, since her father was a Latvian immigrant bookbinder, although her mother was English. Her father, Alexander […]

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Chapter 5: “Peaceably, If We Can – Forcibly, If We Must”: trades unions, the working class and Chartism in Derbyshire in the struggle for economic and political liberty 1 The Birth of the Charter (1839) [...]